The Faculty has a significant activity in cancer care and other major health concerns. Medical physicists in the Centre for Nuclear and Radiation Physics work on diagnosis and therapy technologies and collaborate with electronic engineers from the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing who are improving imaging modalities. For the aging society, the Centre for Communication Systems Research is developing systems for assisted living.  Engineers in the Ion Beam Centre within the Advanced Technology Institute conduct translational medical research using a vertical nanobeam in conjunction with mathematical models developed by chemical engineers to study tumour growth, proliferation and patient outcomes.

Within Biomedical Engineering, technology is applied to the development of equipment and measurement methods for use in healthcare. Research on biomaterials, proteins and cells is carried out by physicists and materials scientists in the Surrey Materials Institute.

There are mathematicians performing biological and  medical modelling in the Modelling, Numerics & Applications group, and computer scientists are working on the development of computational methods for identification of disease in the Biologically Inspired Modelling and Applications group.